as my colleague steve israel says. it's a done deal and it's time for us to move on. it's the basis on which we are going to proceed and we have to get on with it. we've got to go to the table. do the best we can. in a balanced bipartisan way to create jobs, reduce the deficit and pick up into the future. just talking about how we got here and our complaints about this bill don't get me started. but that's not -- >> let me get you started a little bit. was a president a bad negotiator. did he give away too much? >> i don't think so. i think the president was great. but again what is the point of talking about what the finished. on anything that happens around here anyone one of us could have done it better. we could have written it better, whatever it is. the fact is the president wanted a balanced bipartisan agreement. >> but he didn't get a balance. there's no taxes in it. >> that's right. nobody knows that better than i, perhaps some do. i fully appreciate that. but again, this is about how we go to the next step. jobs, jobs. jobs. we get sort of it's a cottage ind